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Dennis Kucinich

Dennis Kucinich is former US Congressman and two-time presidential candidate from Ohio who served 16 years in the U.S. House of Representatives. Visit his website at KucinichAction. Follow him on Twitter: @Dennis_Kucinich

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ViewsFriday, March 24, 2017Saving Obamacare Is Not Enough—We Need Medicare for AllT he health-care debate in America is essentially an argument over what kind of private insurance market people should have access to: President Obama’s, where the insurance companies made out like bandits, or President Trump’s, where insurance companies will make out like bandits. Let’s change the...Read more

ViewsThursday, January 01, 2015New Year's Resolution for AmericaWhen anyone of us resolves toward self-improvement, it can impact the lives of those we love. How much more impact can we have, if in the new year we work to recreate the future of this country we love, by resolving to take bold steps in a new direction in a new year? In 2015 I will observe the...Read more

ViewsWednesday, September 24, 2014The Real Reason We Are Bombing SyriaThe administration's response to the conjunction of this weekend's People's Climate March and the International Day of Peace? 1) Bomb Syria the following day, to wrest control of the oil from ISIS which gained its foothold directly in the region through the U.S., Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey and...Read more

ViewsFriday, September 06, 2013Top 10 Unproven Claims for War Against SyriaIn the lead-up to the Iraq War, I researched, wrote and circulated a document to members of Congress which explored unanswered questions and refuted President Bush's claim for a cause for war.Read more

ViewsWednesday, October 10, 2012Weapons of Mass Distraction: The Big, Long Lie about Iraq Lingers StillTen years ago, on October 10, 2002, the United States House of Representatives made one of the most calamitous mistakes of a generation. Congress, with willful blindness, voted to attack, invade and occupy a sovereign, oil-rich nation in the Middle East that did not attack us and did not pose a threat to the American people.Read more

ViewsTuesday, October 02, 2012Iraq: Ten Years, a Million Lives and Trillions of Dollars LaterTen years ago today the debate over the Iraq War came to Congress in the form of a resolution promoted by the Bush Administration. The war in Iraq will cost the United States as much as $5 trillion. It played a role in spurring the global financial crisis. Four thousand, four hundred, eighty eight Americans were killed. More than 33,000 were injured.Read more

ViewsWednesday, August 22, 2012Tilling the Ground for the Seeds of TerrorismAfter more than 10 years of war against al Qaeda and the accompanying global "war on terrorism," we have failed to learn that our actions create reactions. Our presence creates destabilization, then radicalization. Occupations create insurgencies.Read more

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